Replaced Arnold documentation

[ddankhazi]

Hi,

I understand the change, but the new Arnold documentation currently is (very) incomplete.

Is it possible to get access for the previous documentation system and its content?
(At least while the new one is not finished/complete.)

It would be extra useful.

Thank you,
Denes Dankhazi

[Stephen.Blair · Accepted solution]

The old wiki is gone.

All the content is still there. It's just in one place now, not six places.

For example, Standard Surface is documented in one place: the Arnold User Guide.

What we're missing at the moment, and working on adding, is the links to make sure people find what they're looking for.

The important thing to remember:

• The plugin user guides are about how to use the Arnold plugin in a certain host application
• The Arnold User Guide has all the info about Arnold nodes.

For example, a plugin user guide should tell you how to apply Arnold shaders. But the details of an Arnold shader like Standard Surface are found in the Arnold User Guide.

[ethan.crossno]

This is extremely disappointing. Trying to google basic Arnold options and no links work anymore. This has basically ruined all documentation or threads related to Arnold that have been worked on for years. Are links that point to the old documentation ever going to be able to redirect to this new site?  Even links within the documentation itself do not seem to work.

 

[Stephen.Blair]

Eventually Google will learn the new links and crawl the site, but you're right now the search hits are wrong.

There was too much change to programmatically redirect everything.

For more information about the denoisers, go to the Arnold User Guide
Help | Denoising | Autodesk

The help search itself is ok for finding that information. 
To search for plugin-specific info, I'd try something like "imagers maya"

Some links are missing, yes. Or still pointing to the old pages. We're working on fixing all those. There were many thousands of links to update.

[ddankhazi]

Thank you.
I found what I was looking for:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_user_guide_ac_surface_shaders_ac_standard_surf...